If a status quo is stable then there are forces that keep it stable.
Of course that doesn’t mean that you can’t be wrong if you try to identify those forces.
They can be local minima, stable but arbitrary. People turn “for want of a nail” into “inconceivable it could have turned out otherwise”.
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If a status quo is stable then there are forces that keep it stable.
Of course that doesn’t mean that you can’t be wrong if you try to identify those forces.
They can be local minima, stable but arbitrary. People turn “for want of a nail” into “inconceivable it could have turned out otherwise”.